US cool on France Mideast peace push, may not attend

The United States appears reluctant to support a French plan to relaunch the Israeli-Palestinian peace process with a major conference this month. The State Department was unable to say on Wednesday whether Secretary of State John Kerry will attend a planned May 30 meeting in Paris. “We remain concerned about the continued violence on the ground and we welcome all ideas on moving this forward,” US spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said.